China Media Group Signs Cooperation MOU with Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise

On September 4, 2024, Shen Haixiong (慎海雄), deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department and director of China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), or CMG, signed a memorandum of understanding with Alioune Sall, Senegal’s minister of communication, telecommunications, and digital economy, in Beijing. The signing covered cooperation in news exchange, joint program production, personnel training, and technology innovation. The agreement was witnessed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was in Beijing for a state visit coinciding with the 9th Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作論壇), or FOCAC, held September 4–6, 2024. The CMG report framed the agreement as contributing to “advancing bilateral relations to a new level.” Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise (塞內加爾國家電視台), or RTS, operates five television channels and multiple radio frequencies, broadcasting in French, Wolof, and other languages. The 2024 MOU built on an earlier agreement signed in July 2018, under which RTS agreed to air a dedicated “China Theater” (中國劇場) programming block featuring Chinese dramas, documentaries, films, and animation dubbed into French.